Quotes about love
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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Thirteenth Revelation, Ch. 40The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 11Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike1932–2009Couples (1968), Ch. 1To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)If there’s delight in love, ‘tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve1670–1729The Way of the World (1700), Act III, scene xiiThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977A Spy in the House of Love (1954)Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Education and the Significance of Life (1953)Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6” (1924), p. 183A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 18 “On the Ice” (p. 249)Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
José Martí1853–1895“Letter to a Cuban Farmer” (1893)Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return …
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 40.
Alice Hoffmanborn 1952Here on Earth (1997)
Voltaire1694–1778Le Dernier Volume Des Œuvres De Voltaire: Contes — Comédie — Pensées -— Poésies — Lettres (1862)
